Bert | Disney Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia “Wind's in the East...mist coming in. Like something is brewing, about to begin. Can't put my finger...on what lies in store, but I fear what's to happen all happened before.” ―Bert's famous prediction that Mary Poppins will arrive again Bert (Herbert Alfred on Sundays, and called, The Match Man in the books) is the deuteragonist in Disney's 1964 film Mary Poppins . Contents [ show ] Background Bert is a jack-of-all-trades with a Cockney accent. He never stays with one trade too long, and adapts to current conditions. He is a long time friend of Mary Poppins , though their relationship is noted to be strictly platonic (but there are hints to suggest a more romantic interest between them). He is shown to be very much at ease with her magic, and implies that she has helped numerous families using her powers. He is incredibly energetic and easygoing, never losing his temper or raising his voice with anyone at all and always looking on the bright side.

However, he shows a deeply empathetic side to his personality when Jane and Michael run from the bank - he expresses his sympathy for their father, in that he is shaped and pressured immensely by the financial world that has imprisoned him. Nevertheless, he compassionately looks after the children until George Banks returns. Physical appearance Bert is a slender man with dark hair, blue eyes, and has fair skin. He usually wears worn-out clothing. While working as a chimney sweep, his face is covered in soot. While in the street picture of the English country side, he wears a red, orange, and yellow suit with a blue bow tie. He also sports a straw hat. Role in the film Bert appears at the beginning of the film, trying to earn money as a one-man-band. After impressing the crowd with various songs, as well as impromptu poetry, he notes a change in the weather, which he notes as a sign of events to come. He then notices the viewer. After being asked, he shows the viewer the route to 17 Cherry Tree Lane, home of the Banks family. Along the way, he introduces the viewer to some of the residents, and is warned by Admiral Boom and Mr.

Binnacle , that the Banks residence is dealing with "heavy weather". Upon arrival, he is surprised to hear loud arguing coming from the house. Later, Bert is shown trying to earn money as a street artist. He has drawn pictures depicting his adventures with Mary Poppins. Soon, Mary appears along with the Banks children, Jane and Michael , for whom she has been employed as a nanny. They tell him that they are on their way to the park. He scoffs at the mundane outing, and is able to successfully goad Mary into transporting the group into one of his pictures, a depiction of the English countryside. While Jane and Michael go to a nearby fair, Bert and Mary enjoy a stroll through the countryside and eat lunch at a small cafe. They talk of their long relationship, which is shown to be platonic. Afterwards, they join the children for a ride on Mary's private carousel. At Mary's word, the horses jump off the carousel, and the group enjoys a horseback ride. Along the way, Bert notices a fox running from hunters, and saves it by putting it onto his horse. They end up in a horse race, where they see Mary easily win it.

After being asked for a word to describe herself, she tells them of her special word, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious , and Bert contributes by noting that he used to say the word to save his nose from being tweaked by his father for being rude for not speaking. Soon, it begins to rain, which washes off the drawing, and the group is forced to cut the outing short. Though Mary laments the loss of the pictures, Bert notes that are more of them coming soon and that he intends to take advantage of the rain and change businesses by selling hot chestnuts. Bert appears the next day, at the home of Mary's Uncle Albert , who is "suffering" from a strange sickness. Apparently he has laughed too much, and is floating in the air, unable to come down. Bert warns the children not to laugh, as the condition is contagious. However, he succumbs to it himself, and joins Uncle Albert in the air. After the children float as well, Mary allows them to enjoy tea together, by making the table float to join them. Eventually, they float to the ground, due to the sadness at realizing they must go home.

Mary asks Bert to stay and keep an eye on Uncle Albert. He attempts to cheer him up with a joke, but fails and both of them end up sobbing. After a disastrous outing with their father , Jane and Michael run away and become lost. They run into Bert, but do not recognize him initially, as he is covered in soot from cleaning chimneys. He helps them to understand that their father does not hate them as they fear, and takes them home. At the Banks residence, he is abruptly hired by Mrs. Banks to babysit the children, as it is Mary's day off. He cleans the chimney and allows them to watch. Mary soon returns home after enjoying her day off, and warns the children of the danger. Just as she speaks, they are drawn up the chimney onto the roof. Bert and Mary follow, and she leads them on an exploration of the rooftops. They run into Bert's chimney sweep friends, and a joyous party breaks out, which eventually ends up at the Banks' home. After Mr. Banks returns, Bert shoos off the sweeps. As he is cleaning up he talks with Mr.

Banks, who confides that he feels that the bank outing was a setup by Mary, and notes that his dreams have seemingly been shattered. Bert sympathizes, but implies that Mr. Banks has focused so much on work, that he has ignored the emotional needs of his children. Bert apologizes for troubling him and leaves. Bert is seen at the end of the film selling kites to various bypassers learning the news that Mr. Banks has changed, the children are now close to him, and that he has gotten back his briefly lost job at the bank. He sees Mary as she is leaving, and asks her not to stay away too long. Bert is a somewhat common character at the Disney theme parks, mostly appearing at Disneyland . He appears as an animatronic figure with Mary Poppins in The Great Movie Ride in a scene based on Chim Chim Cher-ee . Trivia Dick Van Dyke , who portrayed Bert, also portrayed Mr. Dawes Sr. as a dual role.

Gallery Dick Van Dyke tells 'Mary Poppins' stories - CNN.com Dick Van Dyke tells 'Mary Poppins' stories Story Highlights "Mary Poppins" came out 45 years ago; won five Oscars, including best actress Star Dick Van Dyke has been ribbed about his Cockney accent Van Dyke pleased that his show was among Michelle Obama's favorites By Todd Leopold CNN (CNN) -- Dick Van Dyke thought Walt Disney wanted to see him about "Mary Poppins" because of his singing and dancing skills. But the legendary studio founder had something else in mind. Dick Van Dyke played Bert the chimney sweep in "Mary Poppins." "He had heard me in an interview talking about what was happening to family entertainment," says Van Dyke in a phone interview, still amused by the memory. "I was decrying the fact that it seemed like no holds were barred anymore in entertainment. ... That's why he called me in, because I said something he agreed with." Disney, after years of cajoling "Poppins" author P.L. Travers, was finally mounting a production of the books about a magical nanny. With Van Dyke, he knew he was also getting a star as well as a like-minded performer.

The actor's TV sitcom, "The Dick Van Dyke Show," was a steady hit at the time, and he had won a Tony for his work in the stage version of "Bye Bye Birdie." With Van Dyke as the Cockney chimney sweep Bert, fellow Tony winner Julie Andrews (in her movie debut) as Poppins and several old pros in tow, Disney went ahead with production on the 1964 film, which was to become one of the biggest hits his studio ever produced. The movie earned five Oscars -- including a best actress win for Andrews -- and its Richard and Robert Sherman songs, such as "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," "Feed the Birds" and the Oscar-winning "Chim Chim Cher-ee," have become standards. Forty-five years later, "Poppins" is also a hit stage show, with excerpts of the Broadway production featured on a new 45th-anniversary DVD. Van Dyke, 83, took a few minutes to talk about the film, his much-maligned Cockney accent and Michelle Obama's fondness for his old TV show. The following is an edited version of the interview. CNN: Tell me about Walt Disney.

People think of him as a brand name nowadays, but he was a real person and still alive when you made the film. Was he a presence on the set? Dick Van Dyke: Absolutely. He was very much into this and believed in it. He hung around the set a lot. And I'm happy to say he was so pleased with the way it was going, as we all were. CNN: How did you end up with the part of Bert? Van Dyke: Well, I thought he hired me because I was such a great singer and dancer. As it turns out, he had heard me in an interview talking about what was happening to family entertainment. I was decrying the fact that it seemed like no holds were barred anymore in entertainment. ... He knew about the "Van Dyke Show," about our little sitcom, but that's why he called me in, because I said something he agreed with. And I got the part. CNN: "The Dick Van Dyke Show" was still on at the time. Were you balancing the "Van Dyke Show" at the same time you did "Poppins," or were you on hiatus? Van Dyke: It was on hiatus.

That whole decade of the '60s, that's what I did for 10 years -- I did the show and then a movie, a show and then a movie. I felt I'd better make hay while the sun shined. ... It always worked out pretty well. But I found myself getting up in the morning and taking off on the freeway and forgetting where in the hell I was supposed to go, and a couple times I showed up at the wrong studio. CNN: You've taken a lot of ribbing over the years for your Cockney accent. Van Dyke: Oh, have I ever. CNN: Did Andrews or David Tomlinson [who played Mr. Banks] mention things to you about the accent? Or did they just go with the flow? Van Dyke: They just went with the flow! It's funny -- I was concentrating on the dancing, mostly, and they had given me a [voice] coach who turned out to be an Irishman, and his Cockney wasn't much better than mine. During the making of the picture nobody kidded me about the accent, but I sure took it afterwards.

[One British poll named Van Dyke's accent the second-worst British accent ever; Van Dyke observes, however, that he was beaten out by Sean Connery's "Untouchables" performance.] CNN: Tell me about the way the movie was shot. There were a lot of scenes with animated characters, and today those would be shot with a blue screen or computer animation. Van Dyke: I think it's such a shame that Walt didn't live to see computer animation, because he would have had a good time with it. ... In those days it was before the blue screen. They used what was called yellow sulphur lighting -- the screen was yellow, and we worked with that all day, and by the time the day was over you couldn't see anything. ... It was just an empty soundstage. And sometimes we didn't even have the music -- we would just dance to a click rhythm. But I think technically it holds up today just as well as anything. CNN: Did you know what some of the animated sequences were going to be? Van Dyke: Yes, that was in the script. But I had to go to Walt and talk him into letting me do the old [bank president].

I said, I'll do that part and I won't even charge you. So he made me do a little screen test and gave me the part. ... And he didn't pay me -- I had to donate $4,000 to his CalArts school. He was a little horse trader. CNN: You worked with Ed Wynn in the film, and I know you're a huge fan of the old comedians. What was Wynn like? Van Dyke: He was in his [late 70s] at the time, and not very well. He did all that "I Love to Laugh" stuff hanging from the ceiling, and it was just so hard on him, but he was a trouper. He was a sweet old guy. He had a palsy -- his head would move from side to side, kind of involuntarily. But the minute they would say "Action," it would stop. And he'd do the scene, and the minute they said "Cut," it would start in again. CNN: Let me change gears. Michelle Obama has said that "The Dick Van Dyke Show" is one of her favorite shows.

Van Dyke: I've heard that, and I sent them a note and said, "Thank you for making me famous all over again." I call them the black Rob and Laura. CNN: Is it nice that so much of your work has had longevity? Van Dyke: I just lucked into working with geniuses like ["Van Dyke Show" creator] Carl Reiner and Walt. I just lucked out. MARY POPPINS MARY POPPINS has had one Broadway production which opened in 2006 and played 2,619 regular performances. While nominated for eight Tony® Awards, it won only one for Best Scenic Design. It took many years of contact with P.L. Travers for Walt Disney to obtain the rights to the novel the famous movie and this show is based on, and the Disney film MARY POPPINS premièred in 1964 starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke.

MARY POPPINS is a co-production with the White Theatre at the Jewish Community Center and will play at the J July 9-24, 2016 before moving to TTIP for it's run July 29 - August 6, 2016. Original Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman Book by Julian Fellowes New Songs and Additional Music and Lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe Co-Created by Cameron Mackintosh A Musical based on the stories of P.L. Travers and the Walt Disney Film Directed by: Tim Bair SYNOPSIS ACT 1 Bert, a man of many trades, informs us that something big is about to happen to the Banks family. At No. 17 Cherry Tree Lane, Jane and Michael Banks are constantly misbehaving, and Katie Nanna - the latest in a long line of nannies - has had enough ("Cherry Tree Lane"). She leaves, and George Banks asks his wife, Winifred, to place an advertisement in the newspaper for a new nanny, but the children decide to write their own ad ("The Perfect Nanny"). Mary Poppins arrives, and she fits the children's requirements exactly ("Practically Perfect").

Mary Poppins takes the children to the park, where they meet Bert, who is creating his latest works of art. Bored with the park and wary of Bert's scrappy appearance, the children try to escape, but Mary urges them to see the magic in everyday life. Then, the park bursts into brilliant colors and the statues come to life and dance with them ("Jolly Holiday"). As Mary Poppins begins to win over the children, George informs Winifred that they must maintain order and convention. Winifred feels that she is disappointing both her husband and children, and she struggles to understand her role within the family - and within the world ("Let's Hope She Will Stay"). The household prepares for Mrs. Banks' party (A Spoonful of Sugar), but even with a dose of magic from Mary Poppins, no one shows up. Mrs. Banks is left feeling more lost than ever. Mary Poppins takes Jane and Michael on a trip to visit their father at his workplace, the bank ("Precision and Order").

There, George has a choice: to give a loan to Herr Von Hussler, a businessman with a dubious money-making scheme, or to John Northbrook, who presents a solid plan for a factory that would help many but offers little collateral. An innocent question from Jane prompts George to remember the ideals and values he once held ("A Man Has Dreams"). He decides to take a chance on Mr. Northbrook and gives him the loan. On the way home from the bank, the children and Mary Poppins run into the Bird Woman, who is feeding the birds in front of St. Paul's Cathedral. Jane is still worried about outer appearances and shuns her, but Michael gives the Bird Woman money ("Feed the Birds"). Mary Poppins, Jane, Michael, and Bert meet Mrs. Corry, the mysterious owner of an unusual "talking shop," where people purchase words along with gingerbread. The children are surprised to hear that when their father was a boy, he came to this shop to enjoy its magic and spirit of invention ("Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"). Things begin to go very wrong for George.

Von Hussler goes to another bank and makes millions, and George is blamed for passing on the deal and is suspended without pay. In his stress, George yells at the children. In turn, an angry Jane and Michael fight over their toys, which magically come to life to teach them a lesson ("Playing the Game"). Recognizing the children are not yet ready for the lessons she has to teach them, Mary says goodbye to Bert ("Chim Chim Cher-ee"), leaving a note that reads, au revoir, or "till we meet again." ACT 2 The fall has turned to winter. The house is bustling again, because a nanny is returning to No. 17 Cherry Tree Lane. However, it's not the much-missed Mary Poppins, but Miss Andrew, who raised George. Miss Andrew is a harsh woman who believes that children should be punished on a regular basis with a horrible-tasting medicine ("Brimstone and Treacle"). In a panic, the children escape the house and run to the park where they meet Bert, who explains that the cure for every ill can be found at the end of a kite string ("Let's Go Fly a Kite").

Their kite flies up into the London sky and when it comes back down, Mary Poppins is with it. George has also been hiding from Miss Andrew ("Good for Nothing"). With her entire family missing, Winifred worries that she is to blame but resolves to assert herself and fight harder for the people she loves ("Being Mrs. Banks"). Mary returns home with the children and defeats Miss Andrew in an epic battle of wits and will. George returns, relieved to find that Miss Andrew has left, but still anxious about supporting his family. Winifred reminds him he can count on her and the children to stick by him. Whisked up to the rooftops, Mary Poppins, Jane, and Michael meet Bert and his fellow chimney sweeps ("Step in Time"). The sweeps dance across the rooftops of London and into the Bankses' house, wishing good luck to George and shaking his hand as they go. The Bank Chairman asks to see George immediately. George fears the worst, but Bert reminds him that his family is more important that his ambitions ("A Man Has Dreams - Reprise/A Spoonful of Sugar - Reprise"). George leaves for the bank. Winifred wishes she could go with him.

Mary Poppins and the children encourage her to do what she believes right ("Anything Can Happen"). In front of the bank's board of directors, George launches into a defense of his actions before they can tell him that he was right all along: Von Hussler's scheme has fallen through and the competing bank that approved his loan has been ruined. Northbrook's business, on the other hand, is thriving and earning a healthy profit. Winifred shows up, ready to defend her husband, but when she finds the board is promoting him, she negotiates his raise for him. George announces that from now on his family comes first. As George and Winifred walk along the streets of London, Mary Poppins takes Jane and Michael on one more magical adventure - this time through the heavens. Her job done, Mary Poppins says her goodbyes and flies off to her next task. Although the Banks family is sad to see her go, they are glad that they have finally found one another. Taken from and more info at: #sthash.Lz0wTDpq.dpuf This 'Mary Poppins' Theory Will Blow Your Mind! This 'Mary Poppins' Theory Will Blow Your Mind!

by Zach Seemayer 8:46 AM PDT, August 27, 2014 Photo: Disney Today the Disney classic Mary Poppins turns 50! The film won five Oscars out of an astounding 13 nominations and was the only Best Picture nomination Walt Disney ever received. Basically, it's a great film that everyone loves and cherishes across all generations. And we have watched it enough times to uncover 3 insane connections that will totally change the way you see it! Now, our mind-blowing theory all comes down to this: Mary Poppins was actually Bert's nanny long ago and there is a special reason she returns to Bert's life. Let's break it down! CONNECTION 1: MARRY POPPINS WAS ACTUALLY BERT'S NANNY 1.

The "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" Song: Bert sings: "Because I was afraid to speak/When I was just a lad/My father gave me nose a tweak/And told me I was bad/ But then one day I learned a word/That saved me achin' nose/The biggest word I ever heard/And this is how it goes, oh/ Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." Bert explicitly says that, when he was young, he was a scared child who was afraid to speak and had an over-bearing father, until he – as a child – learned that magic word. It's a magical word that really only Mary Poppins knows or uses. There is really no way he could have learned it as a kid unless she taught it to him! VIDEO: Secrets of 'The Lion King' Revealed: What You Didn't Know About the Disney Classic 2. Bert's Various Jobs: In the movie Bert works as a one-man band, a sidewalk chalk artist, a super-chipper chimney sweep, and a kite salesman! The movie takes care to show how sucky all the jobs are, but no matter what, he manages to keep a smile on his face.

It's as if someone taught him how to find the joy in hard work. Perhaps with a spoonful of sugar?! (Yes. The answer is yes.) 3. Bert's Ominous Introduction: In the very beginning, Bert predicts, "Wind's in the East/ Mist coming in/ like something is brewing/ about to begin./Can't put me finger/on what lies in store/ But I feel what's to happen all happened before." It seems vague, but really he's just being coy. It did all happen before, when Mary Poppins was HIS nanny. 4. Bert Never Questions Mary's Magic: Not when she's flying, not when she's turning a cloud of smoke into a magic staircase and not even when she bends the laws of space, time, physics and reality to transport them to a magical chalk-world universe. It's all old hat to him, because he knows all of Mary's magic tricks from when he was a child! It doesn't seem likely that they would have randomly met on the street and Mary just happened to show her reality-bending, universe-jumping supermagic to some arbitrary stranger. VIDEO: Your Favorite Disney Classics Re-imagined On the Big Screen! 5.

But Why Did Bert Age and Not Mary? She's a magical demi-god who can bend reality to her whim. It feels like a person who can turn clouds of smoke into solid steps to travel around the rooftops of London and can fly with an umbrella might be able to make herself look perpetually young. CONNECTION 2: MR. DAWES SR., THE BANK OWNER, IS ACTUALLY BERT'S FATHER 1. The Physical Similarity: Dick Van Dyke plays Mr. Dawes as well as Bert. He's the only actor in the movie to play two characters. Also, he looks just like an old Bert, because he's Bert’s dad! Remember that lyric from Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious? "Because I was afraid to speak/When I was just a lad/My father gave me nose a tweak/And told me I was bad." It sounds like his father was a real jerk! Know who else is a real jerk? Mr. Dawes, the character who just so happens to be played by the same actor. VIDEO: 8 Disney Characters You Forgot Were Voiced by Famous Stars 2.

They Are Both "Blue Bloods:" There is also a lyric from the song Jolly Holiday that Mary sings which goes, "Though you're just a diamond/ In the rough, Bert/ Underneath your blood is blue!" The term 'blue blood', as defined by the Merriam Webster Dictionary, is "membership in a royal or socially important family." Bert is a blue blood. Mary knows this because she was his nanny. She helped raise him and she knows his father was Mr. Dawes. 3. Mr. Dawes, Sr. Floats When He Laughs: As we know, only people associated in some way with Mary Poppins float when they laugh. Not sure if you know this, but people don't naturally float when they laugh. Before Mr. Dawes finally dies from laughing, he starts to float! In the boardroom! This is proof, within the context of the movie, that Mary Poppins has been in contact with him during his life. VIDEO: Hanks 'Had His Work Cut Out For Him' in 'Banks' CONNECTION 3: UNCLE ALBERT IS BERT'S UNCLE 1. The Name: Let's speculate that Uncle Albert is Mr. Dawes' brother.

When Dawes had his second son, he named him in honor of his brother Albert. Or Bert, for short. This is also why Mary Poppins knows him as Uncle Albert! He's not her uncle. If he was, why would Bert just be at the house waiting for her when Mary gets there? She calls him Uncle Albert because that's what she's used to calling him when she saw him often during her time as Bert's nanny. 2. Again, The Floating: As we've established, only people who have come into contact with Mary Poppins float when they laugh. This has clearly been a recurring problem for Uncle Albert. Bert says, "Last time it took us three days to get him down." NOW, LET'S TIE IT ALL TOGETHER So Dawes had Bert when he was already rather old (say 40 or 50, not unheard of). He already had one son (Dawes Jr.) who followed in his footsteps but Bert was shy and reserved -- not the cutthroat personality type needed in the banking world. Dawes then hires Mary to be Bert's nanny, and Mary tries to work her "saving Mr.

Banks" magic on Dawes by teaching him the meaning of family, life, and happiness. But it doesn't work! Dawes is already too old and stuck in his ways. VIDEO: Kristen Bell Plays Mary Poppins, Gets Political in Funny or Die Parody However, it does work on Uncle Albert, who was a younger, voracious banking world shark. He realized the joy in the world and quit the bank but kept his savings. This explains why he still appears to be well off. Mary Poppins feels a tremendous amount of guilt for not being able to help Mr. Dawes be a better person and a better father, and for not saving Bert from a destructive home life. This is why she frequently pops back into Bert's life: To see how he's getting along in life, and brings new joy into his world as frequently as she can. And this is exactly why Mary Poppins is just as brilliant and magical 50 years later!

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12 When "Mary Poppins" returns to broadcast television for the first time in 13 years, Dick Van Dyke will host the 1964 Disney film. He played Bert, the Cockney chimney sweep, opposite Julie Andrews in the title role, which brought her the Oscar. "Mary Poppins" will take up all of prime time -- 8 to 11 p.m. -- Saturday, Dec. 12, on Disney-owned ABC . Van Dyke will host interstitials during the presentation from "The Wonderful World of Disney." Target will sponsor the broadcast, and bull terrier Bullseye, the Target mascot, will be with Van Dyke. In an October interview on CBS' "The Talk," Van Dyke cited Walt Disney as the reason the film stood out. "Walt was the guiding spirit over the whole thing. ... We would say we were both children looking for our inner adults," Van Dyke said. ABC said that Van Dyke "takes viewers on a magical journey into Disney's Archives where they can spot treasures, including iconic props from 'Mary Poppins' and other Disney favorites, and he shares insights about a movie that continues to delight generations of families." One source of joy is the music.

The songs include "A Spoonful of Sugar," "Jolly Holiday," "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," "Feed the Birds," "Chim Chim Cher-ee" and "Let's Go Fly a Kite." Target will share all of its "Holiday Odyssey" story in a series of commercials during "Mary Poppins." The film received 13 Academy Award nominations, including best picture, which went to "My Fair Lady." "Mary Poppins" won five of the statuettes: actress, song ("Chim Chim Cher-ee"), visual effects, film editing and original music score. Movie Review - - MARY POPPINS - NYTimes.com Movie Review By Bosley Crowther Published: September 25, 1964 That wonderful English nursemaid, Mary Poppins, who has charmed millions of children (and grown-ups) throughout the world since she first entered literary service under the encouragement of Miss P. L. Travers in 1934, has finally been embodied in a movie.

And a most wonderful, cheering movie it is, with Julie Andrews, the original Eliza of My Fair Lady, playing the title role and with its splices and seams fairly splitting with Poppins marvels turned out by the Walt Disney studio. In case you are a Mary Poppins zealot who dotes on her just as she is, don't let the intrusion of Mr. Disney and his myrmidons worry you one bit. Be thankful for it and praise heaven there are such as they still making films. For the visual and aural felicities they have added to this sparkling color filmthe enchantments of a beautiful production, some deliciously animated sequences, some exciting and nimble dancing, and a spinning musical scoremake it the nicest entertainment that has opened at the Music Hall this year. And, of course, if you know Mary Poppins, you know that no one would dare to try to fool around with her appearance and her staunch individuality. Even the great Mr.

Disney would find himself being subdued by a prim nanny flying through his window and warning crisply, "That will be quite enough of that." This is the genuine Mary Poppins that comes sailing in on an east wind, her open umbrella canted over on the starboard tack, to take on the care of the Banks children, Jane and Michael, in their parents' London home, and vastly uplift the spirits of that father-dominated family. It is she, played superbly by Miss Andrews, with her button-shoed feet splayed out to give her an unshakable footing and a look of complete authority, who calmly proceeds to show her charges that wonders will never cease and that there's nothing like a spoonful of sugar to sweeten the nastiest medicine. And it is she, with her unrelenting discipline and her disarmingly angelic face, who fills this film with a sense of wholesome substance and the serenity of self-confidence. But don't think that Mary Poppins is simply a nursery martinet. She is a wonderfully agile spirit with a gift for expansion and fun.

To her, it is not the least amazing that she can fly with an umbrella, slide upstairs on banisters on which ordinary people slide down, walk through chalk drawings on the pavement into glittering magical worlds, and take her young charges along with her, to their surprise and delight. And it is in the performances of these wonders that Mr. Disney and his people assist in their most felicitous fashion. Flying characters are easy for them. There's nothing at all unusual about sliding a nanny upstairs. And when it comes to surrounding live persons with adorable animated cartoons, they are, of course, the past masters. They are close to their best in this film. By far the most fanciful passage is a winning one in which Mary Poppins, her two young people, and Bert, the sidewalk artist and match-seller, pass into a cartoon wonderland where barnyard animals frolic. And there's a tinkling carousel, on the horses of which the four voyagers go bouncing off on adventuresome jaunts.

To a thoroughly rollicking musical number, "Jolly Holiday," they get mixed up in a cartoon fox-hunt, with a darling Irish fox, and ride on into the Derby horse race, which, needless to say, Mary Poppins wins. Maybe it's our imagination, but there's something about the tunes that Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman have written for this film that reminds us of the tunes in My Fair Lady. And also the Edwardian costumes and the mellow London settings recollect that hit. A brilliant ballet in which Miss Andrews and Dick Van Dyke as Bert scatter and leap with a gang of sooty chimney-sweeps on the London rooftops is reminiscent, too. The comparison is not unflattering to either. Mary Poppins is a fair-lady film. Bouquets don't go only to Miss Andrews. Mr. Van Dyke is joyous as Bert, the gay and irrepressible street merchant who is the companion of Mary Poppins and the kids. The latter, performed by Karen Dotrice and Matthew Garber, are just as they should be, and their parentsappropriately eccentricare done beautifully by David Tomlinson and Glynis Johns.

Ed Wynn is grand as Uncle Albert, who soars up to the ceiling when he laughs, and Reginald Owen makes of Admiral Boom, the nautical neighbor, a natural caricature. Hermione Baddeley, Elsa Lanchester, and Arthur Treacher are droll in smaller roles. Robert Stevenson has directed with inventiveness and a true Mary Poppins flair. Of course, it is sentimental. And, as Mary Poppins says, "Practically perfect people never permit sentiment to muddle their feelings." But being not practically perfect, I find it irresistible. Plenty of other adults will feel the same way. And, needless to say, so will the kids. MARY POPPINS (MOVIE) Directed by Robert Stevenson; written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, based on the "Mary Poppins" books by P. L. Travers; cinematographer, Edward Colman; edited by Cotton Warburton; music by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman; art designers, Carroll Clark and William H. Tuntke; produced by Walt Disney and Mr. Walsh; released by Buena Vista Pictures. Running time: 140 minutes. Step in time!

/ Mary Poppins - YouTube Step in time! / Mary Poppins Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Sep 27, 2006 LYRIC BELOW! Artist: Dick van Dyke & Julie Andrews Song: Step in time Step in time, step in time Step in time, step in time Come on, mateys, step in time Step in time Step in time, step in time Step in time, step in time Never need a reason, Step in time, you step in time! Kick your knees up! Kick your knees up, step in time Kick your knees up, step in time Never need a reason, Kick your knees up, step in time Round the chimney! Round the chimney, step in time Round the chimney, step in time Never need a reason, Round the chimney, step in time Flap like a birdie!

Flap like a birdie, step in time Flap like a birdie, step in time Never need a reason, Flap like a birdie, step in time Up on the railing! Up on the railing, step in time Up on the railing, step in time Never need a reason, Up on the railing, step in time Over the rooftops! Over the rooftops, step in time Over the rooftops, step in time Never need a reason, Never need a rhyme... step in time! Over the rooftops!

Question: Who played Bert the chimney sweep in the film 'Mary Poppins'?
Answer: Dick van Dyke